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...Last night, the Time Olympic team got a taste of Turin, site of the 2006 Games, at Casa Italia. The Casa, a restaurant created on the second floor of a Salt Lake office building by the Turin Organizing Committee and the Italian Consulate General, is staffed by a chef flown in especially for the occasion. Italian athletes, support staff, dignitaries and their guests feast every night on a buffet of northern Italian delights, and drink from a never-ending supply of red wine. By the looks of things, Turin will be a very pleasant site for the next winter games...
Aquavit's fare, primarily seafood and game, is Scandinavian, but the preparation and presentation are distinctively Chef Marcus Samuelsson's, acquired on a career journey that has carried him to Paris and through Latin America. Many dishes are served on a block of translucent glass that looks like ice. One is tuna accompanied by horseradish sorbet, colder and more crystalline than the traditional horseradish in cream. Among our other favorites were a soup of sea urchin, seared foie gras and watermelon; and hot smoked arctic char with octopus, mushroom, buckwheat ragout and duck consomme...
...that’s when the dart hit Dartboard. They are paying for her to look like that. They are paying for her personal chef to make her eggs Benedict, mac and cheese and apple pie tasty but still under her allotted 1,000 calorie daily intake. They are paying for her personal trainer to find new and exciting ways to burn that allotted 1,000 calories a day. They are paying for the Britney...
Such gentrification often results in a community takeover by higher income groups, with rising prices displacing lower-income residents, or in this case customers. For Valentine, a chef who works in the Boston area, the changes to Central Square mean that he might need to move out, even though he likes his job and the city...
Playing the role of the renegade rock-'n'-roll chef is going to get harder for Bourdain as his celebrity rises. David Fincher, the director of Fight Club, has optioned Kitchen Confidential for a film to be called Seared, and Brad Pitt may play the main character. Bourdain still maintains a position at the Manhattan brasserie Les Halles, where he is now executive chef, which means he shows up with a six-pack of Corona a few times a month and hangs out with the staff. He says he will never cook again; his knees are too shot...